KJs
69.38%
Wins 68.03%, ties 2.69%
JTs
30.62%
Wins 29.28%, ties 2.69%
KJs against JTs: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KJs | 68.030 | 2.690 | 29.280 | 69.375 |
| JTs | 29.280 | 2.690 | 68.030 | 30.625 |
Two suited hands meet here: KJs against JTs. Sharing a rank is the signature of a dominated hand, since the weaker hand is usually out-kicked when the shared rank shows up.
KJs is the clear favorite, though JTs gets there on roughly one board in 3. Split pots make up 2.69% of the boards, and both equity figures count them as half a win each.
Place 20 of 169 belongs to KJs and place 45 belongs to JTs in the ranking against a random hand.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| KJs | 13,979,000 | 553,000 | 6,016,000 |
| JTs | 6,016,000 | 553,000 | 13,979,000 |
The board total is exact, 12 deals at 1,712,304 boards each. Won, tied and lost counts are rounded to the nearest thousand from the five-decimal percentages.
| Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KJs | 2.265 | 1.470 | 3.415 | 0.441 |
| JTs | 0.441 | 3.415 | 1.470 | 2.265 |
In the last column, a pot-to-call ratio at or above the figure makes a call break even or better at this equity.
Who is ahead on which flops
If you know the kind of flop that came, the numbers shift: KJs holds 77.20% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) and 62.83% on monotone flops. KJs stays ahead on all five textures.
| Flop | Share of flops | KJs wins | Ties | JTs wins | KJs equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.138 | 67.128 | 2.606 | 30.266 | 68.431 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 76.507 | 1.394 | 22.099 | 77.204 |
| Two-tone | 46.543 | 67.001 | 2.086 | 30.913 | 68.044 |
| Monotone | 5.215 | 60.546 | 4.572 | 34.882 | 62.832 |
| Paired | 17.333 | 70.452 | 4.437 | 25.111 | 72.670 |
A rainbow flop shows three suits, a two-tone flop repeats one suit, a monotone flop is a single suit, and a paired flop repeats a rank.
Compared with a random hand
The table below sets each hand against its own random-hand baseline: a change of +6.81 points for KJs, from 62.57%, and -26.91 for JTs, from 57.53%.
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KJs, all flops | 69.375 | 62.567 | +6.808 | 1.10881 |
| KJs, rainbow, ten or higher | 68.431 | 62.567 | +5.864 | 1.09372 |
| KJs, rainbow, nine or lower | 77.204 | 62.567 | +14.637 | 1.23394 |
| KJs, two-tone | 68.044 | 62.567 | +5.477 | 1.08754 |
| KJs, monotone | 62.832 | 62.567 | +0.265 | 1.00424 |
| KJs, paired | 72.670 | 62.567 | +10.103 | 1.16147 |
| JTs, all flops | 30.625 | 57.528 | -26.903 | 0.53235 |
| JTs, rainbow, ten or higher | 31.569 | 57.528 | -25.959 | 0.54876 |
| JTs, rainbow, nine or lower | 22.796 | 57.528 | -34.732 | 0.39626 |
| JTs, two-tone | 31.956 | 57.528 | -25.572 | 0.55549 |
| JTs, monotone | 37.168 | 57.528 | -20.360 | 0.64609 |
| JTs, paired | 27.330 | 57.528 | -30.198 | 0.47507 |
Does a shared suit matter?
A shared suit is impossible for this matchup, so KJs' 69.38% is the answer for every suit pattern.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KJs wins | Ties | JTs wins | KJs equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 0 | 0.00 | not possible | not possible | not possible | not possible |
| No shared suit | 12 | 100.00 | 68.030 | 2.690 | 29.280 | 69.375 |
How often this matchup comes up
You will meet this exact matchup 0.0015% of the time in a random heads-up deal: 24 of 1,624,350, counting either seat order.
A worked example
Say each player puts $100 in before the flop, making a $200 pot. On average KJs takes back $138.76 of it, which is $38.76 more than it put in, and JTs takes back $61.24, $38.76 less than it put in.
Run 1,000 deals and the tally comes out near 680 for KJs, 293 for JTs and 27 ties.
The same matchup from the other side
If you came looking for JTs against KJs, the numbers are the same with the hands swapped: 30.62% and 69.38%.
Keep exploring
KsJs against JhTh is a ready-made deal for the calculator, with no suit in common between the hands. The neighboring matchups below replace one hand with another of similar strength.
How this was computed
We counted every case. Each suit pattern of the 12 specific KJs against JTs deals meets all 1,712,304 boards, and the better five-card hand wins; a split pot is half a win each. The flop table reads each board under all ten of its three-card flops.
Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used.
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